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The other side of the dock

From European Voice's Entre-Nous column

6/23/10, 9:03 PM CET

Updated 4/23/14, 9:03 PM CET

Eva Joly is in trouble

Eva Joly, the Norwegian who has become a French Green MEP, is in trouble with the law. She has been sent a court summons by Nadine Berthélémy-Dupuis, an investigating magistrate in Paris, following a legal complaint from David Douillet, a national member of parliament from France’s ruling UMP party.

Douillet alleges that Joly breached France’s defamation laws when she made comments at a public meeting in September 2009 about his banking arrangements. Douillet has also filed a complaint against Jean-Luc Hees, head of Radio France, France’s public radio network, because one of his stations reported Joly’s remarks.

What makes the case particularly piquant is that Joly was herself one of France’s leading investigating magistrates. In the 1990s, Joly led a high-profile investigation into allegations of corruption between energy company Elf-Aquitaine and the French government.

Apparently undaunted, Joly continued to make trouble this week, accusing former budgets minister Eric Woerth of a conflict of interest.